Exnergy's Sift Version

Exnergy's Sift Version

A shimmering new dimension for Minecraft Java 26.3, inspired by Minecraft Dungeons II.
Awaken a Warden, earn your way through the portal and step into the Sift. It's a strange and beautiful world of glowing red and teal grasslands, white willows, red sandstone spires, bone deserts, frozen caves and soul-lit caverns, under skies full of magical creatures. Explore sixteen biomes and meet 66 creatures, from bouncy jelly bunnies to sky dragons you can ride. Find villages of the Sift's own people and storm an Illager stronghold. Survive the Soul Storms, and take on eight bosses in their own arenas.
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✨ What's new in 1.4.0: The Sky Update
13 sky creatures, including the rideable Kirinling and Galeroc and the colossal Islebearer, which carries a floating island on its back
The Illager Stronghold: a three-floor underground fortress with Soul Lifts, a Soul Forge, a prison and a vault. At the bottom wait the Supreme Evoker and the Monstrous Opus
Boss arenas for every guardian, each with a reward chest holding that boss's signature item
The Splinterwing Queen and her floating crystal nest
A new Humbler Huskland with chasms, Bounce Jelly, the Jellyhop, the Blub and walkable Hollow Humbler Husks
Singer's Meadow and Lullaby Hills reworked, plus the new Singer's Portal
Living villages with a chapel, a workshop, a market and a new Huskland village
Glowmelons and Duskmelons, bees that live in their hives, young creatures and color and shape variants
Explorer maps, paper in the Sift, vanilla enchanting on Sift gear, Bestiary ranks and a rainbow Ichor
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🌌 Entering the Sift
Build a portal frame from Reinforced Deepslate and use an Echo Shard on it
A Warden awakens to guard the way. Defeat it and the portal opens (instant in Creative)
Inside the Sift, use an Echo Shard on a Soul Block to tear open a Rift home. It closes after 2 minutes
The Rift Compass points back to your arrival point. The Waystone Shard lets you choose where portals drop you
The Singer's Portal in Singer's Meadow holds a working Sift portal that takes you home
Teleports and `/locate` trips always set you down safely on the surface
🗺️ Biomes
Surface
Lullaby Hills: red stone cliffs and soil-topped hills with patches of green grass, under white willows and fireflies
Singer's Meadow: red sculk under tall blue grass, Ichor pools, red stone walls and pale-vined willows. Home of the Singer
Wild Meadows: wide, flat flowering plains dotted with willows
Ravines: deep canyons with caves and Frozen Souls glowing in the walls
Sifter Canyon: clusters of towering red spires and ancient Sifter ruins
Humbler Huskland: a bone desert with Bone Sand, gravel paths, craters, chasms, Ichor pools, Husk Slate mesas and giant titan bones
The Carapace: a cracked land of giant chitin plates
Wild Sporefields: forests of giant glowing sporecaps
Choral Glen: singing chime spires and crystals
Ichor Ponds: glowing rainbow Ichor pools with small islands
Willow Highlands: tall mountains covered in white willows
Ichorfrost Peaks: rare snowy peaks in a blizzard of glowing Ichor snow
The Silent Meridian: a super rare field of Nebula Grass around an ancient monolith
Underground
Glimmering Hollow: a lush cavern around a great glowing Ichor lake
Echo Den: sculk caverns of Echo Stone
Frozen Soul Caverns: icy caves of Soul Ice and Soul Icicles
Sky
Floating islands appear in many biomes. Some hold Sky Shrines, ruined sky camps or patches of Glowmelons
Three colored auroras drift across the sky day and night
No sun and no moon: the Sift has a sky of its own
🐾 Creatures
66 creatures that hunt, graze, pollinate, groom and migrate together in a living food web.
Gentle: Bubblebun, Mossnib, Ichorling, Puffleece, Lapjaw, Petalwing, Chimefly, Dunegrazer, Rockhopper, Sproutle, Sporeling, Frostling, Sift Goat, Spireneck, Blub, Jellyhop and the Sift Villager
Sky: Wisplet, Moonmote, Lanternfin, Seraphin, Vespercloak, Phoenixling, Sigilray, Islebearer, Kirinling and Galeroc
Neutral: Thornback, Willowkin, Hummel, Bonewalker, Lumenmoth, Ichor Lurker, Resonant Golem, Bloomstag, Ichor Yeti, Cragmane and the Glimmerbee
Hostile: Sifterling, Sculk Prowler, Snapjaw Bloom, Shardstalker, Gloomshade, Duneburrower, Sculk Crawler, Burstpuff, Spitgob, Gnasher, Gnashling, Shellback, Rimewalker, Shiverback, Splinterwing, Hexeye and Riftmaw
The Singer: a tall, shaggy, always-happy creature with antlers and a long neck whose song heals allies and calms Wardens
The Soulward: build one from Soul Blocks and a Carved Pumpkin. It gathers Soul Blocks for you
The vanilla Sniffer and Allay are part of the Sift too
Many creatures have young and come in color and shape variants
Hostile and neutral Sift creatures attack Illagers on sight
🤝 Companions and Riding
Adopt 14 creatures with their favourite treat. They follow you and never despawn
Ride adopted Kirinlings and Galerocs: look up to take off and look down to land
The Jellyhop is a living trampoline
Use the Companion Whistle to call companions or tell them to stay, and the Soul Jar to carry them anywhere
👑 Bosses and Arenas
Every boss lives in its own arena and leaves a reward chest with its signature item when defeated.
Sculk Colossus in the Colossus Pit
Spire Titan in the Titan's Crown
Bloom Empress in the Empress Garden
Gnashmaw in the Gnashmaw Den
Splinterwing Queen in her floating nest
Supreme Evoker and Monstrous Opus beneath the Illager Stronghold
The Veilkeeper, who sleeps beside the monolith of the Silent Meridian
🏰 Structures
Sift Villages with houses, farms, a chapel, a workshop and a market. Their look changes with the biome
The Illager Stronghold: barracks, a Soul Forge and a vault and prison, joined by Soul Lifts
Singer's Portal, Sifter Ruins, Ruined Sift Portals, Illager Soul Excavations, the Meridian Monolith, titan bones and Hollow Humbler Husks
Every built structure can be found with `/locate structure`, and Sift cartographers sell explorer maps
⛈️ Soul Storms, Tides and Souls
A Soul Storm sweeps the Sift every 3 in-game days with waves of monsters, scaling XP and its own soundtrack
The Sift's day flows through three Tides: Flow, Thrive and Endure
Collect up to 100 souls, heal with the Soul Mender and store them in a Soul Flask. Touching Ichor drains your souls before it burns you
🌾 Farming and Food
Grow Duskwheat, Glowroot, Glowmelons and Duskmelons on Sift Farmland watered by Ichor
Glimmerbees live in nests and hives and fill them with Glimmer Honey
Sift bread, soups, stews, pies, Bloom Tea and the Ichor Elixir
⚔️ Gear and Items
Siftite and Resonant gear, which works with vanilla enchanting, plus four Sift enchantments and four charms
Throwables, the Petal Glider, Tide Clock, Rift Compass, Soul Flask and more
Bounce Jelly, Titan Marrow (permanent extra hearts) and Blub Jelly (swim through Ichor)
Three Sift books, including a Bestiary with five ranks and rewards
🧱 Blocks
A full White Willow wood set, Siftstone, Sift Bricks, Tidestone, Blush Sandstone, Bone Sand, Husk Slate, Carapace, Echo and Froststone bricks, Sift workstations, glowing lamps, colored grasses, Sift ores and the Soul Lift. Everything sits in one sorted creative tab.
🎵 Music
Three original Sift themes, also collectible as music discs, plus Cyan Tempest, the Soul Storm theme.
🔧 Compatibility
Shader friendly, with a real day and night
Controlify support
Every biome and block has its own map color
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Requirements
Minecraft Java 26.3
Fabric Loader 0.19.5+
Fabric API
Java 25

This is a fan-made mod inspired by Minecraft Dungeons II. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mojang Studios or Microsoft.
All ideas, design and direction by Exnergy. All code, textures, models, artwork and music in this mod were created with the help of AI tools.